This was the intended outcome. The right very much used Citizens United as part of their plan to take over the country. It was Republican SC judges who did it! It made much progressive policy from Dems difficult to implement, EVEN IF they had wanted to. And the right has taken over, now by full coup
This. The 2015 (?) Citizens United decision was the beginning of oversized influence in US elections, from corporate interests and their dark money, to foreign interests giving dark money to orgs that do not fully disclose their donors. It’s why elections have only gotten more expensive since then
Yup! All this hand wringing online from people who super charged the unamerican security state created after 9/11. Spying on libraries. Spying on electronic comms. Torture is not torture.
The GQP of 1996-2016 is every bit as guilty of doing this to us as the modern GQP.
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The GQP of 1996-2016 is every bit as guilty of doing this to us as the modern GQP.